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UPHOLSTEREBS BUTTON.

(Application filed Jan. 9. 1899.)

(No Model.)

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A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. ELLIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DOAN &

GATES COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

SFEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,720, dated November21, 1899.

Application filed January 9 1899.

To all whom it may concern.-

.Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. ELLIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Upholsterers Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to that class of buttons known as upholsterersbuttons, in which a prong provided with a tongue or tongues extendsoutwardly from the cap-seat to penetrate the cloth or other covering ofan upholstered part of an article of furniture, a mattress, cushion, orthe like.

The principal object of my invention is to providea simple andeconomical upholsterers button so arranged as to effectively andsecurely bind together the top and bottom coverings of a couch, chair,or other similar article of furniture, a mattress, cushion, or the like.

My invention consists particularly in the combination of a button-cap, aperforated protecting plate or Washer, and a shank consisting of acap-seat and a prong extending outwardly therefrom and adapted to beinserted through the perforation of the plate, the said prong having atongue or tongues cut out of the body of the prong, the tongued part ofthe prong being connected with the other part of the prong by. twonecks, one on either side of the tongue, adapted to be bent so that thetongue projecting outwardly will engage the plate or washer aforesaid atits under side, substantially as described hereinafter.

My invention is an improvement on the upholsterers button invented byme, upon which I have filed application for Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, date of filing being August 15, 1898, and serial number ofapplication being 688,660.

In the drawings, Figure lis a sectional view of a piece of upholstery,showing a tufted top and also showing shank of button before and afterbeing bent into position. Fig. 2 is a front view of shank with capdetached, prong of shank showing one tongue formed by a V- shaped cut.Fig. 3 is a front view of button Figs. 4 and 5 are Serial No. 701,691.(No model.)

first a shank s, which may be stamped or made out of a single piece ofmetal. This shank, as shown in Fig. 2, is provided with a base orcap-seat a, preferably saucer-shaped in form. From the middle of thelower or convex face of this base and perpendicular thereto extends aprong a, the upper portion of which may be stamped out of the baseitself, as shown in Fig. 2. This prong, which may be of any suitablelength, I provide with atongue, as a extending in an opposite directionfrom the point of the prongand formed by acnt in the body of the prong.This tongueis cut into the prong so as to leave a narrow or easily-bentneck on either side of the said tongue. I also provide a metal cap b ofsize suitable to fit over the base or cap-seat (it. Over this cap clothor other fabric may be stretched and secured in the manner commonlyemployed in the art, so as to make, in combination with the shank abovedescribed, a complete upholsterers button. I provide, further, aperforated plate, as c, the perforation 0 therein being adapted toreceive the prongand secure it when it shall have been bent. The furtheroffice of this plate is to provide a wide seat for the bent tongue andprong and so make impossible the tearing of the bottom cover beforereferred to.

In use the prong of the complete button is inserted through the topcovering of the mattress, cushion, or article of furniture to beupholstered. The upholstering or tufting stered article.

. invention to cause damage by catching in iron or steel so strong as tomake it diflEicult The particular advantage of my fastener or buttonover .other fasteners is that it does not my'invention itis necessary tobendpbut one part, and the tension or pull of the tufting material uponthe part engaging the retaining plate or washer is the more successfullyI each other, according as the lower protruding part of the tongue isnearer or farther from the cap-seat a.

In the art in which my invention is used it is necessary to havefasteners or buttons of to: bend, them out of the fastening position.v

require the bending of the nib or tongue to put it in the fasteningposition-#5. e., at right angles to the main or upper portion offtheprong. The bending of the lower portion of the prong at the necks issufficient to bring this about. 'The tongue being unbent thereforeremains strong and able to better resist the pull of the tuftingmaterial in the uphol- Furthermore, in inserting my fastener through thecovering of the article to be upholstered and through the tuftingmaterial there is no danger that the point of the tongue may catch insuch material; It is impossible for the point of the tongue-in mysuchmaterials. My invention has substantial advantages in strengthoveran y fastener which may require the-bending of two parts before itassumes the fastening position. In

resisted because that part has never been bent. I

While I have described my invention with more or less mi-nutenessregarding details of construction asbeing embodied incertain preciseforms, I do not desire to be limited thereto unduly or any more than ispointed out in the claim. On the contrary, I contemplate all properchanges in form or construction and arrangement, the omission of im-"material elements, and the substitution of equivalentsas circumstancesmay suggest or necessity render expedient.

I I claim-- A metal fastener or button for use in upholstering, whoseoffice is to fasten together the upper and lower coverings of anupholstered article of furniture, a mattress, cushion or the like, andwhich is composed of a head or cap-seat and a. prong extending outwardlytherefrom, and ,thrust through the uphol'stering material, a tongueformed by a cut or slit upon the body. of the prong, the point of thetongue. extending in an opposite direction from the pron'gs point, theprong being bent. atthenecks formed by the tongue at its base, thetongue and the bent part of the prong lying in the same plane, and at asubstantial right angle with the upper part of the prong passing throughthe fabric, and

a cap adapted to be fitted over the cap-seat and clamped thereon, allsubstantially as de scribed.

1 CHAS. S. ELLIS.

Witnesses:

OHAs. S. BURTON, MARK T. LEONARD.

